[69]
Will you propose, Demosthenes, that we go to war, in view of
your success with the previous wars? Suppose the rest of Athens decides on this, which is fairer:
for your gold to be available for war along with other people's or for others to
contribute from their own property, melting down the personal ornaments of their
wives, the cups and all the country's store of offerings to the gods, as you
said you would suggest, though you yourself paid in fifty drachmas from your
houses in Piraeus and the city?
That has been your contribution under the last levy though now you have twenty
talents.
Dinarchus. Minor Attic Orators in two volumes, 2, with an English translation by J. O. Burtt, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1962.
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